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Older adults encode--but do not always use--perceptual details: intentional versus unintentional effects of detail on memory judgments.

Investigations of memory deficits in older individuals have concentrated on their increased likelihood of forgetting events or details of events that were actually encountered (errors of omission). However, mounting evidence demonstrates that normal ...
Wilma Koutstaal (Psychol Sci, 200303)
older-adults-encode-not-perceptual-details-intentional-versus.asp

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Effects of peripheral nonlinearity on psychometric functions for forward-masked tones.

Psychometric functions (PFs) for forward-masked tones were obtained for conditions in which signal level was varied to estimate threshold at several masker levels (variable-signal condition), and in which masker level was varied to estimate threshold at ...
Kim S Schairer, Lance Nizami, Jason F Reimer, Walt Jesteadt (J Acoust Soc Am, 200303)
effects-peripheral-nonlinearity-psychometric-functions-forward-masked.asp

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Breaking the waves: age differences in electrical brain activity when reading text with distractors.

The authors tested whether older adults have greater difficulty than younger adults in ignoring task-irrelevant information during reading as a result of age-related decline in inhibitory processes. Participants were shown target sentences containing ...
Natalie A Phillips, Dayle Lesperance (Psychol Aging, 200303)
breaking-waves-age-differences-electrical-brain-activity-reading-text.asp

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Attentional orienting towards smoking-related stimuli.

According to incentive salience theory, conditioned stimuli (CS+) associated with drug reinforcement acquire the capacity to elicit a conditioned attentional orienting response, which controls drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviour. We sought evidence ...
L C Hogarth, K Mogg, B P Bradley, T Duka, A Dickinson (Behav Pharmacol, 200303)
attentional-orienting-towards-smoking-related-stimuli.asp

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Age-related changes in selective attention and perceptual load during visual search.

Three visual search experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that age differences in selective attention vary as a function of perceptual load (E. A. Maylor & N. Lavie, 1998). Under resource-limited conditions (Experiments 1 and 2), the ...
David J Madden, Linda K Langley (Psychol Aging, 200303)
age-related-changes-selective-attention-perceptual-load-visual-search.asp

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Using auditory streaming to reduce disruption to serial memory by extraneous auditory warnings.

Three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of extraneous speech warnings (i.e., low-priority warnings initiated during high-priority tasks) on cognitive performance and whether organizing the auditory warnings into streams can attenuate any ...
Simon Banbury, Liz Fricker, Sébastien Tremblay, Lucy Emery (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200303)
auditory-streaming-reduce-disruption-serial-memory-extraneous.asp

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Neural sensitivity to human voices: ERP evidence of task and attentional influences.

In an earlier study, we found that human voices evoked a positive event-related potential (ERP) peaking at approximately 320 ms after stimulus onset, distinctive from those elicited by instrumental tones. Here we show that though similar in latency to ...
Daniel A Levy, Roni Granot, Shlomo Bentin (Psychophysiology, 200303)
neural-sensitivity-human-voices-erp-evidence-task-attentional.asp

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Mirtazapine in combination with amitriptyline: a drug-drug interaction study in healthy subjects.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the steady-state pharmacokinetics of mirtazapine (30 mg/day orally) and amitriptyline (75 mg/day orally) during combined administration compared with that of either drug administered alone. To evaluate the tolerability and effects on ...
C Sennef, C J Timmer, J M A Sitsen (Hum Psychopharmacol, 200303)
mirtazapine-combination-amitriptyline-drug-drug-interaction-study.asp

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What neural correlates underlie successful encoding and retrieval? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study using a divided attention paradigm.

If attention is divided during learning, memory suffers. Nevertheless, individuals can learn information with divided attention. This event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study (n = 17) investigated what neural processes support (1) ...
Elizabeth A Kensinger, Richard J Clarke, Suzanne Corkin (J Neurosci, 200303)
neural-correlates-underlie-successful-encoding-retrieval-functional.asp

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Control of voice fundamental frequency in speaking versus singing.

In order to investigate control of voice fundamental frequency (F0) in speaking and singing, 24 adults had to utter the nonsense word [ta:tatas] repeatedly, while in selected trials their auditory feedback was frequency-shifted by 100 cents downwards. In ...
Ulrich Natke, Thomas M Donath, Karl Th Kalveram (J Acoust Soc Am, 200303)
control-voice-fundamental-frequency-speaking-versus-singing.asp